http://www.printmag.com/ Short updates on daily/weekly basis (Parent) en-us Copyright 1997-2002 F+W Media Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:46:59 -0600 http://www.printmag.com/Article/The-25-Best-iPhone-Apps-on-Color There are quite literally hundreds of apps focused on color, but we've narrowed them down to the best 25. Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:35:00 -0600 http://www.printmag.com/Article/The-25-Best-iPhone-Apps-on-Color http://www.printmag.com/Article/Toward-an-Archive-of-Digital-Design Designers, with our limited enthusiasm for the act of archiving, have been particularly neglectful at creating an archive of digital design. The Internet changes radically every three years, if not sooner, and yet we have very little record of the major role that we’ve played in its upheavals. Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:10:00 -0600 http://www.printmag.com/Article/Toward-an-Archive-of-Digital-Design http://www.printmag.com/Article/Design-as-Dictator Technology is turning us into switchboard operators in the communication networks of our own lives, and graphic design is implicated every step of the way. Why does everything have to arrive through a screen? Why not try rejecting the templated experiences, the social media, and the patronizing attempts to involve us in prescribed interactions? Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:01:00 -0600 http://www.printmag.com/Article/Design-as-Dictator http://www.printmag.com/Article/If-You-Dont-Read-This-Ill-Kill-The-Dog "Making people laugh is the lowest form of humor," said Michael O'Donoghue, one of the wits behind The National Lampoon (and a substitute English teacher at my high school). But making people laugh hysterically was the goal and success of The National Lampoon, which picked up for Baby Boomers where MAD magazine left off. Now a insightful and entertaining new book chronicling the Lampoon titled Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the Lampoon Insanely Great by Rick Meyerowitz provides the first in depth look at the art of Lampoon art and art direction. Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:22:00 -0600 http://www.printmag.com/Article/If-You-Dont-Read-This-Ill-Kill-The-Dog http://www.printmag.com/Article/Gastrotypographicalassemblage The Gastrotypographicalassemblage (a real mouthful) was the 11 metre wide handmade wooden typographic wall that hung in the CBS cafeteria in New York designed by Lou Dorfsman, with custom type created by Herb LubalinTom Carnase and containing almost 1500 individual characters. "There are few pieces that represent the typographic and design spirit that illuminated that moment of history, and certainly none on a scale as ambitious," said Milton Glaser. Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:22:00 -0600 http://www.printmag.com/Article/Gastrotypographicalassemblage http://www.printmag.com/Article/Let-the-Rally-Wars-Begin Rally round the rallies boys, rally round the rallies. Shouting the battle cry of freedom. What else can we say? Here's the latest salvo in the battle of wits and rally provocateurs (in their own words) from the left and right, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (see them here): "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" Who among us has not wanted to open their window and shout that at the top of their lungs? Seriously, who? Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:13:00 -0600 http://www.printmag.com/Article/Let-the-Rally-Wars-Begin http://www.printmag.com/Article/A-Helluva-Dante Dante’s hell is Chwast’s heaven. Imagery flows from him like blood from a freshly opened vein. Chwast's deceivingly child-like scrawls are packed with inherent wit. In this adaptation, a noir-ish Dick Tracyesque, trench-coat wearing, pipe smoking Dante treks through the Inferno, Purgatory and ultimately Paradise, led by the mustachioed Virgil in a bowler hat, spats and carrying a walking stick. Along the way he encounters the evil minotaur (in a wrestling suit) guarding the ravine of broken rocks; the well endowed centaurs guarding the Boiling Blood River; and the teeming masses of serpents attacking the sinners. Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:36:00 -0600 http://www.printmag.com/Article/A-Helluva-Dante http://www.printmag.com/Article/The-School-of-Rap MTV-U is the best place to see and hear the latest hip hop music videos. In fact, it is like the AIGA of hip hop. Really, Mr. Koolpants? Yes Really, Mr. and Mrs. America! Because videos have become the 21st century graphic design (in a way). And music vidz, which have gotten less air time on the main, game and reality besotted MTV, are still featured content on MTV2 and this website. It just so happens that my son, a music video director, has a piece competing on the Freshmen MTV-U. Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:21:00 -0600 http://www.printmag.com/Article/The-School-of-Rap http://www.printmag.com/Article/59-Posters-That-Shook-The-World English-born David King is an artist, designer, editor, photographer, photo historian and archivist, who has been described as “one of the most significant artistic-intellectual personalities of our time.” He also has a gallery dedicated to his rotating collection of Russian revolutionary and avant garde posters at the Tate Modern, London. Its good to be King. This October, Cleveland-based Productive Arts gallery will exhibit (and sell) King’s graphic art and designs, primarily the political and cultural posters and graphics he produced in the late 1970s and mid 1980s Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:09:00 -0600 http://www.printmag.com/Article/59-Posters-That-Shook-The-World http://www.printmag.com/Article/Up-Against-the-Wall Paula Scher’s recent mural, large-scale typographic map paintings, examines ideas of location and ways of seeing the world. Her pair of murals at Queens Metropolitan Campus, a new public middle school and high school in Forest Hills, were completed last week as a commission for the Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art program, in partnership with the NYC School Construction Authority Public Art for Public Schools program. Pentagram notes: “The two murals are located in an atrium and commons at the Metropolitan Campus and each cover approximately 2,430 square feet." Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:54:00 -0600 http://www.printmag.com/Article/Up-Against-the-Wall